On a dark December night in 1995, a routine commercial flight turned into one of the most devastating aviation disasters in ...

There’s nothing better than being in the mountains. The air is fresh and cool. The scenery is like the Lord of the Rings ...

Scientists have discovered that the southern Andes Mountains don't rise slowly and steadily as previously thought. Instead, ...

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 ...

The Andean mountains stand out for their striking species richness and endemicity that characterize many emblematic Neotropical clades distributed in or around these mountains. The radiation of the ...

After a cruise ship-linked outbreak sparked fears of another COVID-19-style crisis, scientists examined the evidence and found that Andes hantavirus spreads, evolves, and causes disease in ...